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Thank you for articulating this. This issue has many manifestations in the interview process. It can be so frustrating.

I can relate to this. I was “bad” at math as a child, and was so bored by its basics or at least how they were taught. I never had a good foundation and so never got to takeTrig or…

I can say that Bandcamp made this release possible... it just got released this week! and this is a record that waited years to come out and is a big band featuring some of the bes…

An artist is always fundamentally speaking about themselves— they have no choice in this. Herzog’s self applied to various subjects is just really compelling.

Right, but then every company would just grow uberdevs and be chock full of awesome at some point, but it seems like that isn’t happening w these interns as often as would make the…

Interesting piece. Two things: 1. How do these few absolutely spectacular developers blossom into such impressive specimens of the lot? Why not get them before this happens and hel…

Shoot. I was trying to be supportive/positive. I have worked in many non-profits. I agree, writing virtuosity would be a tremendous asset in some of the jobs you mentioned. I have …

Throughout grad school, I worked as a writing tutor to support my humanities habit. Each new class of high school seniors was less skilled —and even less interested— in writing tha…

Wait...does anybody care about writing skills anymore? ——outside—or even inside—journalism? I wish they did. Writing seems to be treated like a 20th century skill of the uber-afflu…

Classical/Lyrical/MT (what is MT?musical theater??)styles do not require "more" technique. They require different techniques that have a long pedagogical history. The style is not …

I'm with you on "born with": Karen Carpenter, Barbara Streisand and Whitney... we will never have another of any of these ever again. But Louis Armstrong?-- a great great singer an…

Paul, this absolutely breaks my heart. Anyone can learn to sing in tune. I’ve taught kids and adults who are “tone deaf” to listen and sing/play in tune in weeks to months. It isn’…

You don’t need a teacher. Seriously. The teacher thing is not the mindset you seek. Or rather, your best teachers are the great musicians you listen to over and over and admire fro…

Find a group ( or start one!) that likes similar music or all types and sit in a room ( or zoom?) and play these songs together- everyone goes around the room taking solos, singing…

BTW, this is how birds learn their calls! The only app or teacher or tuning device you will ever really need are your own ears. We musicians develop technique by training ourselves…

I’m a professional musician in NYC. I perform and record classical and “jazz” and compose music. I learned to code a while ago too. Here are a few vocalists who “taught themselves”…

The Ayn Randian perspective isn’t all that helpful for those in protected classes, and the sunset of her life and career (depressingly) argued strongly against her theories re: ube…

It is ageism when a company would hire a 25 year old with the same skill set but would’t hire the 45 year old in those circumstances (or insert anyone in a protected class). The po…

Um, so you... failed to check a pretty glaring "edge case" is what you are saying? You maybe failed to optimize the solution, is what you are saying? Ok. Fortunately, this glitch— …

“Anyone who’s spent a few months at a sizable tech company can tell you that a lot of software seems to exist primarily because companies have hired people to write and maintain th…

Does Naxos pay Youtube for these takedowns?

Imagine it like this: It feels like toxic propaganda that doesn’t jive with reality or empathy for anyone- an every man for himself lack of community and warmth. And for some, it f…

The thing is, I’m actually interested in why we, a community of engineers and tech people, aren’t genuinely interested in evolving the fundamental failures of our system. We might …

Why is it that no one questions the system in which these —at best, ridiculously obtuse—at worst, totally corrupt, often nepotistic— “interviews” reside? The whole “interview/audit…

Truly excellent post! I discovered just how inaccessible the NYC transit system is for folks using wheelchairs or other personal assists when I had surgery. It is appalling how man…